So I had already written this with the first chapter and was actually debating on putting them together. I hope you enjoy!


Chapter 2


Aomine fell onto his bed with a sigh. This was ridiculous, hell it had long passed that and was now bordering on insanity. It had been close to a week since his earth shattering epiphany and all that he had ever thought about since then was Tetsu. He would be eating cereal and he'd remember how Tetsu had always been fond of the sweeter brands, especially if they had fruit pieces covered in frosting sugar and how his eyes would subtly light up and the corner of his mouth would kick up a notch. Or Aomine would be brushing his teeth and an image of Tetsu with his sleep bleary eyes and adorably ruffled bed hair which made him look like he had had raunchy sex all night long. At this point Aomine's pants would become uncomfortably tight and he'd have to resort to decidedly unsexy thoughts – like Midorima in ruffled grandma knickers, dancing on an iceberg. That usually killed the mood pretty quickly.

And if it weren't memories of Tetsu, it would be steamy daydreams. But all of that Aomine could handle, and in fact enjoy, what he couldn't stand was the constant replay of all the intimate looks and touches he had seen shared between Bakagami and the object of his obsession. Repicturing those images felt like being kicked right in the stomach, leaving him breathless and slightly nauseous…and there they were again, with the stupid intense stares and the irritating secretive smiles. Aomine flipped roughly onto his stomach and stuffed his face into his pillow to muffle the frustrated scream that was clawing up his throat.

The cheerful chirping of his phone interrupted his internal rant and Aomine tilted his head lazily to check the caller ID. In bright blue letters, the name 'Tetsu' flashed across the screen. Aomine froze for a second and as cliché as it sounds, the blasted organ in his chest actually skilled a damn beat and when it resumed, he could feel the pounding echoing through his whole body. He burst into a frenzy of movement, simultaneously trying to tug his right hand out from under his pillow to grab his phone while violently pushing up with his left which sent the pillow flying into the phone and clattering across the floorboards. Aomine tried to scramble off the bed, kicking at the blankets tangled around his legs and pin wheeling his arms in an effort to regain his balance. He ended up face down on the floor with his lower body still in bed.

Snatching his phone up, he answered out of breath, "Hi."

The silence on the line suddenly dropped by a good thirty degrees, Aomine shivered and shifted restlessly. As a self-taught Tetsu-facial-expression-body-nuances-vocal-and-silence expert, he diagnosed the current mood of the other blunette as bordering on murderous. He began to shift furiously through all his recent actions which could have caused offence and started to clear his throat awkwardly when his ex-shadow cut in, "I'm sorry. Does Aomine-kun have a girl over right now?"

To most people, Tetsu's voice would have sounded very much like his usual blunt, expressionless speech, but Aomine could detect the irritation and scowl which practically dripped from his words.

Shivering with trepidation, he yelled, "W-w-what?! N-no! Of course not!"

As the unexpected, and uncalled for in Aomine's opinion, animosity showed no sign of waning, he became increasingly desperate and without thinking blurted, "Why would I be with a girl? I mean, sure I used to be into chicks with big melons but that was before and come on, people can change right? It's not like I'm an inflexible, close minded moron, you know? I can definitely be with someone who's not a girl. And I'm not saying I'm with anyone at all! Just that if I was, why would you assume it's a girl? The only one I could ever want in that way, the only one that's even been on my mind lately, is yo-"

He managed to strangle the last syllable in time, horrified at his verbal diarrhoea. A dark red flush crept up his neck and spread into his cheeks, God, what the hell was wrong with him? He may as well have declared his tendency to develop hard ons for guys and written his feelings for which specific guy roused these feelings in the form of a sappy poem on a pink and red love heart card and shoved it in Tetsu's face all the while tap dancing and singing gay choir show tunes.

There was a brief pause on the other end but when Kuroko spoke next he sounded considerably happier and even slightly…pleased? The tanned boy shook off his confusion as Tetsu continued talking.

"If Aomine-kun is not busy, will he meet me at the street courts in an hour's time?"

"S-sure."

Click.

Aomine shakily snapped his phone shut, his thoughts going six hundred kilometres a minute. Did Tetsu just ask him out on a date?!


So you think I should continue this? Again, thanks for stopping by!